Month: October 2016

We live, we love, and then our loved ones die. The pain of grief comes and creates a hole in our life’s tapestry. Carole King so aptly sings about life’s journey in “Tapestry,” which begins with: “My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue; An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view. A…

In Doc Fry’s electronics class, I learned my first engineering standard: resistor color coding. Each color represented a number. Each color also represented a multiplier–power of ten. Some colors also represented a tolerance. The position of the color band indicated how to interpret the color as a number, multiplier or tolerance. A simple standard for…

Mom gave up her sewing room when my brother turned one. In that room, she had sewn each of her daughters a first communion dress; I recall mine—blue with cap sleeves. With her Singer sewing machine she carefully sewed Halloween costumes and tended to the basket of mending. While I don’t recall when she taught…

After hearing that I had interviewed for a position at Intel Corporation, my Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) classmate, Scott Robinson, remarked “I still have the grill marks.” Scott had joined Intel a year ahead of me and his comment referred to the intensive questioning he had experienced during his interview. While I was not puzzled…

Fall camping at the beach provided me a moment of feeling awestruck. My family traveled the Delaware shore more times in September and October than July and August. The water was actually warmer, the waves more interesting to jump and the crowds were non-existent. On one side of the road- the beach and the Jetty;…

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Those who are not engineers know two certainties: death and taxes. Engineers know a third: there are no prefect designs. Every single product ever made has had shortcomings, weaknesses and outright design errata.